Senior Legal Manager: Complex Commercial Transactions

Carrier; Florida; On-site; USD 118,000 - 235,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Disability insurance

Life insurance

Tax-advantaged accounts

Job summary

Carrier Global Corporation seeks a Senior Manager, General Legal to independently lead high-stakes commercial matters, negotiate sophisticated B2B agreements, and align legal strategies with business objectives. The role partners with Finance, Operations, Engineering, and Compliance to mitigate risk while enabling growth.

You will translate complex issues for executives, develop contracting playbooks, and advise on risk allocation across national accounts and data-center opportunities.

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor from an accredited U.S. law school.
• Admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 8+ years of law firm or in-house corporate/commercial legal experience advising on contract negotiation and/or transactional matters.
• 6+ years of demonstrated ability to independently lead sophisticated B2B negotiations involving multiple internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a primary legal advisor for strategic and national accounts, data center opportunities, and other significant commercial relationships, engaging early in account planning and transaction strategy.
• Lead the structuring, review, and negotiation of sophisticated B2B agreements, including master supply and services agreements, account and project agreements, statements of work, amendments, change orders, and channel arrangements.
• Develop scalable frameworks for repeat business across projects, locations, business units, purchasers, affiliates, and channel partners, while preserving appropriate project-specific review and controls.
• Advise on key commercial and project risks, including scope, schedule and delay, performance obligations, testing and acceptance, service levels, warranties, liability, indemnification, cybersecurity, supply-chain constraints, third-party dependencies, and flow-down obligations.
• Align contractual commitments with technical capabilities, execution plans, production and supply-chain constraints, and approved commercial and financial assumptions.
• Propose practical alternatives when customer terms or contracting models cannot reasonably be accepted, and exercise sound judgment regarding negotiation positions and escalation.
• Partners with business leaders and subject-matter experts, including Finance, Operations, Engineering, Compliance, Tax, Insurance, Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Intellectual Property, as appropriate.
• Translate complex legal and commercial issues into concise, business-oriented recommendations for executives and other stakeholders.
• Develop and improve templates, playbooks, fallback positions, escalation criteria, and practical training to support consistent and efficient contracting.

Skills

Commercial contracting

Risk allocation

B2B negotiations

Cross-functional collaboration

Executive communication

Education

Juris Doctor (US law school)

Bar admission (US jurisdiction)

Job description

Carrier Global Corporation seeks a Senior Manager, General Legal to independently lead high-stakes commercial matters, negotiate sophisticated B2B agreements, and align legal strategies with business objectives. The role partners with Finance, Operations, Engineering, and Compliance to mitigate risk while enabling growth.

You will translate complex issues for executives, develop contracting playbooks, and advise on risk allocation across national accounts and data-center opportunities.